Rescuers clean the snow for a stranded car at a national highway linking Jarud Qi and Holin Gol within north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, early on Dec. 15, 2010. More than 400 vehicles and an unknown number of people on board were stranded by snow on the national highway since Tuesday afternoon in Inner Mongolia. [Xinhua]

A bulldozer cleans the snow for stranded cars at the snow-covered national highway linking Jarud Qi and Holin Gol within north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, early on Dec. 15, 2010. More than 400 vehicles and an unknown number of people on board were stranded by snow on the national highway since Tuesday afternoon in Inner Mongolia. [Xinhua]